Francis Chan Quotes

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

Every man has a purpose, something special that he can do better than anyone else. Your work is to discover this, then give yourself to it. The extent to which you use your skills to add to the world determines your happiness.

Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there.

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

I think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

Ours is a society that has falsely assumed that contribution must mean giving to some specific cause rather than simply giving our best selves. Thus, too many people don't recognize the fact that simply being who they are is contributing significantly to the world. What if simply living your truth, being your best, and fully expressing your strengths, talents, and abilities at whatever you do were sufficient to contribute to the world? I say it is, and we must not overlook the fact that being our best ultimately inspires others and can and does indeed make an impact.

If only we could realize that our purpose is to be caretakers. We are responsible for leading our flock to the place where the grass is green, but it is up to them to eat! We cannot be responsible for how much they digest. We cannot make people mature.

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

It is impossible to get the measure of what an individual can accomplish unless the responsibility is given him.

It's through my health that I'm able to maintain that every single day and keep light in people until I'm actually of service to others.

There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.

But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

Well being, serenity and service to others are the ultimate measures of true wealth, success and power

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.

You are your best self when you give yourself away.

That is my reality. It's that important to nurture and foster my own creativity. There are plenty of birthday parties I haven't been able to go to, weddings I haven't been able to go to because I've been working. Those are things that have not been easy to give up, but at the same time, it is my reality. It's my responsibility.

Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.